The Theatrical City
Author | : David L. Smith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2003-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521526159 |
A collection of interdisciplinary essays on the 'theatrical' in Renaissance London.
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Author | : David L. Smith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2003-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521526159 |
A collection of interdisciplinary essays on the 'theatrical' in Renaissance London.
Author | : Mary C. Henderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Mary Henderson's definitive history of theatre in New York City spans over three centuries and relates the development of theatre to the social, political, economic, and cultural climate of the time.
Author | : Mary C. Henderson |
Publisher | : Clifton, N.J. : J.T.White |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jean E. Howard |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2011-06-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812202309 |
Arguing that the commercial stage depended on the unprecedented demographic growth and commercial vibrancy of London to fuel its own development, Jean E. Howard posits a particular synergy between the early modern stage and the city in which it flourished. In London comedy, place functions as the material arena in which social relations are regulated, urban problems negotiated, and city space rendered socially intelligible. Rather than simply describing London, the stage participated in interpreting it and giving it social meaning. Each chapter of this book focuses on a particular place within the city—the Royal Exchange, the Counters, London's whorehouses, and its academies of manners—and examines the theater's role in creating distinctive narratives about each. In these stories, specific locations are transformed into venues defined by particular kinds of interactions, whether between citizen and alien, debtor and creditor, prostitute and client, or dancing master and country gentleman. Collectively, they suggest how city space could be used and by whom, and they make place the arena for addressing pressing urban problems: demographic change and the influx of foreigners and strangers into the city; new ways of making money and losing it; changing gender roles within the metropolis; and the rise of a distinctive "town culture" in the West End. Drawing on a wide range of familiar and little-studied plays from four decades of a defining era of theater history, Theater of a City shows how the stage imaginatively shaped and responded to the changing face of early modern London.
Author | : James Kirkwood |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781557833648 |
(Applause Libretto Library). It is hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since A Chorus Line first electrified a New York audience. The memories of the show's birth in 1975, not to mention those of its 15-year-life and poignant death, remain incandescent and not just because nothing so exciting has happened to the American musical since. For a generation of theater people and theatergoers, A Chorus Line was and is the touchstone that defines the glittering promise, more often realized in lengend than in reality, of the Broadway way. This impressive book contains the complete book and lyrics of one of the longest running shows in Broadway history with a preface by Samuel Freedman, an introduction by Frank Rich and lots of photos from the stage production.
Author | : Michael McKinnie |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1442669446 |
In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Locating theatre companies – their sites and practices – in Toronto’s urban environment, Michael McKinnie focuses on the ways in which the theatre has adapted to changes in civic ideology, environment, and economy. Over the past four decades, theatre in Toronto has been increasingly implicated in the civic self-fashioning of the city and preoccupied with the consequences of the changing urban political economy. City Stages investigates a number of key questions that relate to this pattern. How has theatre been used to justify certain forms of urban development in Toronto? How have local real estate markets influenced the ways in which theatre companies acquire and use performance space? How does the analysis of theatre as an urban phenomenon complicate Canadian theatre historiography? McKinnie uses the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts as case studies and considers theatrical companies such as Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto Workshop Productions, Buddies in Bad Times, and Necessary Angel in his analysis. City Stages combines primary archival research with the scholarly literature emerging from both the humanities and social sciences. The result is a comprehensive and empirical examination of the relationship between the theatrical arts and the urban spaces that house them.
Author | : Charles Mitchell |
Publisher | : Orange Grove Texts Plus |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Arts |
ISBN | : 9781616101664 |
"From the University of Florida College of Fine Arts, Charlie Mitchell and distinguished colleagues form across America present an introductory text for theatre and theoretical production. This book seeks to give insight into the people and processes that create theater. It does not strip away the feeling of magic but to add wonder for the artistry that make a production work well." -- Open Textbook Library.
Author | : J. K. Rowling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780751565362 |
As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 770 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Actors |
ISBN | : |
Vol. for 1888 includes dramatic directory for Feb.-Dec.; vol. for 1889 includes dramatic directory for Jan.-May.